""Dumbed down for the Facebook generation brats who we believe are the only people still spending money at movie theaters.""

You know, for someone who has a massive hard-on for comics that the generation older than him thought were stupid and pointless, bit of an odd thing to say. Unless all of that is the opinion of the people you're taking the piss out of.

Hey Moviebob way to mock everything you said you liked About Sucker Punch in this article. Seriously dude stop making yourself look like some enlightened critic. Your just a douchebag with a medium to get his voice heard.

daitsdudes:Hey Moviebob way to mock everything you said you liked About Sucker Punch in this article. Seriously dude stop making yourself look like some enlightened critic. Your just a douchebag with a medium to get his voice heard.

Lol, why are you getting so butthurt? Don't like his reviews, stop reading them, your just a douchebag with a medium to get your post read.

"No one with any particularly impressive credits is involved directly in the production, but a few of the several-dozen people credited as some sort of producer also had their names on something popular, so we can technically mention it in our advertisements!"

Boy do I ever hate this tagline in commercials. "From the producers of..." is probably the least indicative about the quality of the actual film.

...Actually, it is probably the most indicative about the quality of the film. It means the film is garbage and they couldn't find anything good to say about it so they hope movie-goers will be gullible enough to believe producers do anything but manage the budget/hopefully not rape the director and the actors' and writers' vision for their movie to pander to their Hollywood-defined target audience. Ugh.

"A female character who is capable of beating up male enemies twice her size like they were made of jell-o but also has the appearance, physique and temperament of an emotionally-traumatized teenager. Also, she is almost totally uninformed about sex, save that she is fiercely (yet demurely) attracted exclusively to non-threatening nice guys who happen to resemble the males in the film's target audience."

At the risk of perpetuating a stereotype that all Joss Whedon fans are screaming acolytes, completely blind to criticism and logic, I can't help but take issue with this.

Is the insinuation that female characters with emotional issues and are completely normally heterosexual are not complex, challenging or strong? Ignoring the fact that this paragraph ignores all the female characters not called Buffy, and to an extent River, these things don't really hold up at all. Superman doesn't have the physique to move planets and buildings, but others in the same genre are criticised? Buffy and River are teenagers so they look like them. Buffy is perfectly educated about sex and River isn't attracted to anybody.

I honestly can't see what you're trying to say here. If anything this describes Sucker Punch more than Whedon's works. This was probably just a throw away joke which wasn't thought about deliberately which I'm taking too seriously but hey, Whedon's works get dragged through the mud undeservedly a lot and it's kind of a sore point for me.

Remember in the 90's when people would pass around lists of blonde/black people/Pollack/woman/other group you're not supposed to make jokes about anymore jokes? Yeah, this reminds me of that.

Did you have something going on the past week or so, Bob? Your review could've been produced without even seeing the movie, and this required little to no effort. It's okay to take a week off every once in a while.

PhiMed:Yes, because Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin are totally non-threatening.

I honestly wouldn't know. I've never seen Firefly. A lot of people tell me I should, but I find it hard to believe that when everything else I've seen from him has been utterly horrid to me, one would just magically be the one I like, unless Firefly is entirely and completely unlike everything else he's done.

PhiMed:Yes, because Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin are totally non-threatening.

I honestly wouldn't know. I've never seen Firefly. A lot of people tell me I should, but I find it hard to believe that when everything else I've seen from him has been utterly horrid to me, one would just magically be the one I like, unless Firefly is entirely and completely unlike everything else he's done.

I've never really dug his other stuff. I would say it's "utterly horrid". I don't like it, but I can appreciate how someone could like it, unlike the vast majority of American television (Everybody Loves Raymond is the most watched comedy series in history? Really?!?American fucking Idol? Really?!? Fucking Glee? REALLY??????!!!!!!?????).

I've never really dug his other stuff. I would say it's "utterly horrid". I don't like it, but I can appreciate how someone could like it, unlike the vast majority of American television (Everybody Loves Raymond is the most watched comedy series in history? Really?!?American fucking Idol? Really?!? Fucking Glee? REALLY??????!!!!!!?????).

Yeah, TV in this country sucks. Actually, it kind of sucks everywhere.

I'm from Rio de janeiro and... by the trailers, at least, the movie is just not here.

Not even the cars, there's no yellow stripped police cars around here. I dont understand that "I wanna catch all of the street racers" thing by the rock, since theres no street racers here, most of the streets are just too tight for this.

Actually, even if it had street racers all of our police cars are waaaaaaaaaaay too crap to chase them.

And this movie make the same mistake that every other american movie about rio make. They show that the Rio is all about samba, beaches, carnaval, soccer and as a Brazilian nerd i hate all this stuff.

Even the movie Rio thats directed by a "carioca" (someone that has born in rio)does that categorically.

If anyone want to see an accurate movie about Rio go see a movie called The Elite Squad 1 and 2, the first even won the golden bear.

It might look like it's a little to fantasious to be true, but it is real! Really! Even that violence is not everything around here (it happens only in the favelas, and they aren't so common as the midia makes looks like) but it make a very accurate portrait of my country.

Evilmonkey25:I'm from Rio de janeiro and... by the trailers, at least, the movie is just not here.

Not even the cars, there's no yellow stripped police cars around here. I dont understand that "I wanna catch all of the street racers" thing by the rock, since theres no street racers here, most of the streets are just too tight for this.

Actually, even if it had street racers all of our police cars are waaaaaaaaaaay too crap to chase them.

And this movie make the same mistake that every other american movie about rio make. They show that the Rio is all about samba, beaches, carnaval, soccer and as a Brazilian nerd i hate all this stuff.

Even the movie Rio thats directed by a "carioca" (someone that has born in rio)does that categorically.

If anyone want to see an accurate movie about Rio go see a movie called The Elite Squad 1 and 2, the first even won the golden bear.

It might look like it's a little to fantasious to be true, but it is real! Really! Even that violence is not everything around here (it happens only in the favelas, and they aren't so common as the midia makes looks like) but it make a very accurate portrait of my country.

Welcome to the world of the British cinema goer. Where we apparently live in a society where everyone wears a suit and bowler hat at all times, drinks tea, speaks with a ludicrously posh accent, everyone knows the Queen and we all by default evil.

1. There were a lot of quips in there that I've never actually heard ANYONE say about their movie.2. Kind of an alarming amount of accusation of racism towards Hollywood.3. Even of the ones I've heard said before, the "translations" were occasionally pretty nonsensical.

The descriptions of the gay/lesbian sex scenes were pretty funny, though.

Even though I don't read any movie reviews, I wouldn't be at all surprised that trash works are dressed up as "a unique look" "stunning effects" and otherwise throwing around famous names because that's all the movie (and even video games) have to offer. In fact, these statements can be used for just about everything that goes through a review process or has a PR team. Even books.

SpiderJerusalem:Oh, hey Bob, still doing tired old recycled jokes that have about as much humor in them as the bubonic plague? Yeah? Well, good for you.

Seriously, deducting press releases by repeating stuff from Break.com and other, smarter and funnier, websites? Must have been a tight deadline, huh?

Why are you trolling? You provided no reason for your (minority held) assertion, and if you hate it, why are you reading them?

Trolling, by pointing out my opinion that Bob's humor is more reminiscent to cast off bits from Break and College Humor? Huh, so that's how it works. You should know that both the Whedon and Burton jokes are tired retreads from better and more observant jokes, like the entire article of deducing a press release (which was done infinitely better on Cracked), and humor, especially cynical humor, works best when you have even a semblance of knowledge on the matter what you're critiquing, something that Bob has shown to lack - despite enjoying the condescending attitude of calling others "facebook idiots".

But apparently the rampant and unpredictable probation bots of Escapist have already struck me, which is just as well, since it's been apparent for a good while now that they're not really based on anything but whim. As for reading this stuff? Bob started out pretty well, and I was interested in seeing what he was writing and saying, but lately it's more of a curiosity, like a train wreck, to see him stumbling week after week in the swamp of half-truths, outright bigotry and Harry Knowles-school of reporting styled "I know I said this but I'm totally against it now".

2. Kind of an alarming amount of accusation of racism towards Hollywood.

Hollywood is weirdly racist. Movie bob was exaggerating a bit but there really is a fear in the movie industry about honestly portraying race or sexuality. For some reason movies have to be divided up into movies for White people, movies for Black people, or movies for some other minority. They RARELY ever have a minority character and less so a minority lead that doesn't have some stereo typical trait.